Feb 2022 collab-needed music-needed lyrics-only girl-without-a-guitar skirmish superskirmish release ss022622
Not ten minutes before this skirmish started I told my husband that writing lyrics under the time pressure of a skirmish is like doing a big software release except that nothing can go horribly wrong. Then as if it was made for me, the skirmish prompt was "Release."
Any resemblance to actual technology companies is purely inevitable.
Many thanks to @scubed for this prompt.
Host: @scubed
Theme/topic: RELEASE
Tags: #SS022622n, #superskirmish #release
Release Manager
by Nancy Cunningham
Get out of my way,
we've got software to release
I'm Release Manager,
remember that please
I'll keep track of the tickets
I'll order us some food
But quit with all the questions
I'm not in the mood.
We might have to roll back
Like we did last fall
But we've blown through all our deadlines
Our backs are to the wall
So get out of my way,
we've got software to release
I'm Release Manager,
remember that please
If you can't fix it, we can feature it
We've done that before
Sometimes less is less work
Sometimes it's so much more
ERROR ERROR ERROR keeps scrolling through the logs
I suspect our flywheels have finally lost their cogs
God, keep us off the front page
So we can IPO
At least Google's hiring, so we'll have some place to go
Just get out of my way,
we've got software to release
I'm Release Manager,
remember that please
Unless of course this process continues to go south
In that case, really trust me, try to shut your mouth
Don't tell Linked In you know me
Don't rate or recommend
Please don't tell anyone you know that I have ever said
Get out of my way,
we've got software to release
I'm Release Manager,
remember that please
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Oh God...flashbacks to working in Dames & Moore in 1981 (environmental and geotechnical consultants, then the best in the world) trying to get critical reports out the door, and the wordprocessor and printing playing up! The more things change, the more they stay the same. Well put!
@chroes Mar 2022
Oh no. This sums up my daily work life too well. Sigh.
@kristi Feb 2022
The attitude is great and the urgency is present and accounted for. I think music would really wrap this up nicely and deliver a really cool song. Great flow to those lines! Very cool take on the skirmish!
@andrea Feb 2022
This feel s so real! These lyrics are so excellent. I feel so harried just reading them. Needs some major music to bring these lyrics to life! Please keep me in the loop. This will be an awesome song!
@kahlo2013 Feb 2022
This is really great and it sounds like you know from experience what you are talking about. You capture the urgency, anxiety, and controlled chaos well. Great take on the release prompt and funny that you foreshadowed the prompt!